Recent read:The Outside World by Tova Mirvis
a tale of love, marriage, and the trials and tribulations of growing up frum, becoming that way, mothers, dreams, dresses, fathers, working, and the temptation of the outside world … [Read more...]

Memoirs of a Geisha : a Novel by Arthur Golden.[[draft]]An absorbing read which has me running to learn more about these female artists. I definitely think that they get a bad rap with the word "geisha" often being equated to prostitute or whore. I think he left many things out and my impression was of the geisha he chose to portray in this novel was just that, a prostitute ... and i need to remember that this is a … [Read more...]